In 2008, Abigail Fisher filed suit against the University of Texas-Austin, after she was denied admission. In Texas, students falling into the top 10% of their class are automatically offered admission to the university, while the remaining applicants go through the traditional admissions process.

Fisher missed the top 10% deadline, placing 62nd in her class, with a 3.59 GPA. She claims that non-white students were admitted to the university with fewer extracurriculars and worse grades than her.

This will be the second time SCOTUS will hear the case after its initial decision in 2013.

The first time the Supreme Court heard the case, it reversed the Fifth Circuit’s decision and ordered it to revisit the case with strict scrutiny. Even under strict scrutiny, one of the more demanding judicial inquiries, the lower court still rejected the case in July 2014.

Fisher and her lawyers argue that the top-ten percent program creates diversity and renders affirmative action unneeded.

Many legal observers are worried about what the case could mean for affirmative action throughout the country. It is unusual for the court to take up a case on an issue recently decided on unless there is a desire to change things.

The primary issue the Supreme Court will address with this case is the amount of discretion that is allowed by university officials in deciding what is adequate diversity for incoming classes.

Judge Emilio Garza, a dissenting judge from Fifth Circuit court stated that “the majority continues to defer impermissibly to the University’s claims. Proper strict scrutiny would give no deference to UT’s assertion its program is narrowly tailored. It must show that before turning to racial classifications, available, race-neutral solutions didn’t work.”

“They’re going to take a closer look to see if there is any justification for race-based policies” stated Meriem Hubbard, principal attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, in an interview with Forbes, “or whether there are colorblind strategies that can accomplish the same goals.”

Caitlin Grimes is a North Carolina Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse for Campus Reform. She is currently a graduate student studying communications at North Carolina State University.

According to Jacob Buckland, the paper’s editor-in-chief, the paper was facing administrative pressure even before the stories were published. The administration allegedly insisted on more editing before the stories went public.

The standard application for employment on the website requires numerous details pertaining to political affiliation and other demographics that would be illegal for employers to inquire about in the United States.

A major donor and trustee of the Ohio University foundation has faced sharp criticism recently after suggesting that the school “[play] the race card” to disparage opposition to moving the university president and his wife off campus.

"On July 7th I will start accepting donations on this page. I will accept donations for 72 hours, the same amount of time this state currently requires a woman to wait after a consultation with a doctor until she can have an abortion. If one million dollars is raised in those 72 hours then I'll have the baby, give it up for adoption and every cent of that one million dollars will be put in a trust fund for the child, which he or she will have access to when they turn 21."

This past week, numerous Williams College students protested a lecture being given by Eve Ensler, playwright of the infamous Vagina Monologues, because her play allegedly . The lecture, titled “Ending Violence Against Women: The Next Rising Years,” occurred last Thursday April 23rd, amid concern from students.

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